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title: Dr. Stephen Salloway on the Implications of FDA's Decision on Aducanumab
description: Dr. Stephen Salloway discusses the potentially far-reaching impacts of the FDA's pending decision on aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
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# [Dr. Stephen Salloway on the Implications of FDA's Decision on Aducanumab](https://www.butler.org/memoryandaging/implications-fda-decision-aducanumab-interview-stephen-salloway)

 Written by [Laura Dunn](https://www.butler.org/memoryandaging/author/ldunn) | May 22, 2021 4:35:33 PM

  

        

 

News from the [Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital](https://www.butler.org/memory)

May, 2021

 

A decision from the FDA on whether to approve [aducanumab](https://www.butler.org/memoryandaging/drug-studied-at-butler-hospital-could-become-first-to-meaningfully-change-course-of-alzheimers) as the first new treatment for Alzheimer's in the last 17 years is expected next month. What will it mean for the millions with early-stage disease if it is approved?

Dr. Stephen Salloway, director of the [Memory and Aging Program](http://butler.org/memory) and of Neurology at [Butler Hospital](http://butler.org) and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and of Neurology at [The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University](https://medical.brown.edu/), recently talked through the possibilities with [Being Patient Alzheimer's](https://www.beingpatient.com/aducanumab-drug-experimental/). 

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZgF1NVkUtI>

 

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